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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EMU_site-of-glanders-stable_Lynchburg-VA.html
Site of theCivil WarQuartermaster'sGlanders Stable1863 - 1864
Importantearly medical researchwas conducted here onConfederate cavalry horsesaffected by the"Great Glanders Epizootic"
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EMT_chapel-and-columbarium_Lynchburg-VA.html
This chapel was modeled after the 1880 Ivy Chapel Union Church in Bedford County. Most of the construction materials and furnishings were salvaged from the demolition of the c. 1870 Hermon Methodist Church at Oakville in Appomattox County. The bel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EMR_pest-house-medical-museum_Lynchburg-VA.html
This 1840's white frame building was the medical office of Dr. John Jay Terrell. It was moved here in 1987 from Rock Castle Farm in Campbell County and has been restored to recreate medical science in the era of 1860 to 1900. These exhibits repres…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EMQ_hearse-house-caretakers-museum_Lynchburg-VA.html
This museum tells the story of the care of the cemetery's grounds and gravemarkers over the past 200 years. On display is an elegant horse-drawn hearse used by Lynchburg's W.D. Diuguid Funeral Directors in the late 1800's and early 1900's. A simpl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EMP_station-house-museum_Lynchburg-VA.html
This Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Station was in use at Stapleton in Amherst County, Virginia, from 1898 until 1937. It is the only remaining C&O "Standard Station" of its size and style.
In 1999-2001 the badly-deteriorated Station was dismantled …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EMO_site-of-dr-johnsons-tennis-court_Lynchburg-VA.html
During the 1940's through early 1960's Dr. R. Walter Johnson trained aspiring, black, tennis hopefuls on this site. Among these were Althea Gibson & Arthur Ashe.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EMM_dr-robert-walter-johnson-house-and-tennis-court_Lynchburg-VA.html
Dr. Robert Walter JohnsonHouse and Tennis Courtis registered as aVirginia Historic Landmarkby theVirginia Historic Resources Boardand placed on theNational Register of Historic Placesby the U.S. Department of the InteriorDr. Robert Walter Johnson …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EMG_old-city-cemetery_Lynchburg-VA.html
This 1929 map of the boundaries of the Old City Cemetery is the only known record available to locate graves "within the walls" in the older section of the cemetery. Even today no records exist for grave locations throughout the cemetery other tha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EME_old-city-cemetery_Lynchburg-VA.html
This old burying ground, established in 1806, is where most of Lynchburg's African Americans were laid to rest in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As many as 75% of the estimated 20,000 people buried here are African-American.
This…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EM5_c-w-seay_Lynchburg-VA.html
Clarence William "Dick" Seay, who lived here, was principal of Dunbar High School, Lynchburg's secondary school for African Americans. A pioneer in the struggle for equal opportunities for blacks, for 30 years Seay shaped Dunbar High School into a…